Originally posted on August 20, 2019. At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan asks how many of the battles and wars America is embroiled in around the world involve the vital interests of the United States. Buchanan asks this question in light of criticisms of the President’s attempts to make peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan, […]
WATCH: Here’s Someone Who Knows How Afghanistan Should Have Been Handled
Back in 2017, Erik Prince was offering up an alternative plan for winning in Afghanistan. Big military elements in the Trump administration, Secretary of Defense Mattis, and NSA H.R. McMaster pushed back on Prince’s ideas, and they were never accepted. Now chaos has stricken the country, and Prince’s low-cost plan for dealing with Afghanistan looks […]
Regional Powers Await Flood of Refugees After Biden’s Mishandled Withdrawal
After the failure of Joe Biden and his administration to organize an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan, regional powers are preparing for a flood of refugees fleeing from the chaos. Foreign Policy’s “Morning Brief” reports: Regional Powers Assess a New Afghanistan As the United States continues to mount an evacuation effort from Afghanistan, not all foreigners […]
U.S. Freezes Afghan Billions
The Taliban is still sanctioned by the American government, and money owned by the U.S.-backed government of Afghanistan has been frozen in order to stop the insurgent forces from taking it. Bloomberg reports: The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the […]
Biden’s Catastrophic Withdrawal
After two decades in Afghanistan, the decision to leave the country does not necessarily need defending. More important is, (1) will the debacle in Afghanistan undermine the Biden administration’s foreign policy goals, and (2) why did the withdrawal go so poorly, Joe Biden is attempting to blame the collapse on former President Trump, whose administration […]
Why Did America Fail in Afghanistan?
At LewRockwell.com, Pat Buchanan asks the question, “Why did we fail?” There was certainly little evidence given to the American public that conditions were so bad in the county. He goes on to wonder if the misinformation given to the American people was delusion or deceit. He asks “Did the U.S. generals, statesmen, politicians and […]
DISASTER: A Generation of War in Afghanistan
The troops may finally be coming home from Afghanistan after Joe Biden reluctantly has agreed to proceed with President Trump’s plan to pull troops out of the country. As former Congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul tells it in LewRockwell.com, a generation of war in Afghanistan has been a disaster for the United States, […]
President Trump Signs Afghanistan Peace Deal
After nearly two decades of war, President Trump has signed a peace deal with the Taliban. Trump noted that the American people have “spent so much in terms of blood, in terms of treasure, and treasury.” The end of this conflict is long overdue, and its culmination fulfills another of the promises Trump made to […]
A Clear Attempt to Mislead and Deceive the American People
At The American Conservative, Barbara Boland dives into the recently released “Afghanistan Papers.” These documents, uncovered by a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act litigation, illustrate what Boland calls “a clear attempt to mislead and deceive the American people.” She writes: After an extensive investigation and a three-year long Freedom of Information Act legal battle, TheWashington Post released a […]
Afghanistan: Top Military Leaders Have Consistently Misled Public
Yesterday the Washington Post released a story highlighting the vast differences in the public statements government officials have made regarding the never-ending war in Afghanistan and their own private sentiments to one another. Back in August, John Glaser, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, and John Mueller, a senior fellow at Cato, […]